The tour gets along the Valconca on the riverside of the Conca through a desert countryside and small villages, for example Onferno, famous for its grottoes, dug in the gypsum by a small river and according to old popular fallacies, might have inspired Dante when composing the Divina Commedia. The track, starting from Gemmano, where we get back after reaching Onferno, Marazzano and coasting shortly the Conca, entails a few hard slopes and a couple of thrilling descents. From the square of the borough we go to the playground, following a dirt road down; beyond the field, at the firs fork, we turn right following the path until the main road then we take it back until the asphalted road. On this one, after 50 mt we turn left to take the track that widens into a down dirt. Once in the valley we easily ford the Ventina and follow the dirt until a group of houses. The asphalted road is 200 mts. On the left and then along the cartroad that goes down on the left we arrive at the ditch Burano that we coast until the bunch of houses on the knoll. Now we get along the asphalted road rising from these houses and we reach Onferno, then to the grottoes, a hard slope and again down until the sign road marking the end of GEMMANO town. After a while we turn right along a path getting to the hill of S. Colomba and then left downhill to the asphalted road by the bridge Marazzano. We get down to the edge of the Conca and after 2 km. We reach the Chiesa of Corbagnano after which, on the right, starts the path to Gemmano. |
